Hi Tim
Just got to see your reply and also Ralphs. He's correct in that there
is no space between '/' & 'Home': I've already reduced half of the small
swap file. I've been told not to try to move the front of Home forward
as it's very risky and Gparted warns of this. If I was redoing the
partitioning then I could give root a larger space. When I did original
install I gave it 20GiB as I had never used more than 13/14GiB. Also
I'd like to know why this is happening, i.e. have I got a rough program
running 'frequently' which is fill up the space? (It's not only on Lily
space as it's happening on my Home as well).
The only additional Programmes add to the clean install have been
Digikam & Hardinfo. Those two progs have never given any problems
before. When I've made some space it appears to be partially used up
immediately without running anything else - see previous comments.
I see Ralph has given me two other commands to do which I'll do later
and report back.
C A Wills
On 28/01/2021 20:17, Tim wrote:
Hi Clive
Can I ask why you cant reduce your home partition and then extend the
root into the free space ?
Tim H
On 27/01/2021 14:37, C Wills wrote:
Sorry the original copy was sent from another email address which is
not authorised by DLUG system. Sending from the correct address, hope
you don't get it twice!!
Clive
Hi All
Yesterday my wife started her PC and got a warning notice saying
there was on 1GiB on space left on the 'root' partition.
Checking today the following was reported:-
sda1 Ext4 / size - 24.5GiB, Used - 22.7GiB (93%) Free - 1.71GiB (7%).
There is plenty of space for the /Home partition but no space on
sda1 and I can't extend it.
I checked with the disk analyser tool and it showed that the 'var'
file has used most of the space; it's full of Flatpack folders. All
the other folders look OK.
I remember seeing a tool that can 'clean' folder/discs but can't find
it now. Thought it may be the temp folder fill up the space but that
looks OK.
Can't work out what has happened to fill the 'root' folder, no extra
software installed and last time I looked it was only about 50% full.
If I don't do something soon then the PC will lock up And she will do
her 'nut' (doesn't like computers that go wrong!)
What's happening please and can I recover the space. All above by
using a GUI desktop, Mint 19.2 Cinnamon.
--
Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00
Check to whom you are replying
Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk
New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
